Past Film Screenings
Explore the Film Screenings presented in the 2023 - 2024 Season!
Battle Of Amritsar
April 5, 2024
Friday, 7:00 p.m.
Louis B. Mayer Theatre
FREE Film Screening of Battle Of Amritsar
This film looks to the Battle of Amritsar as a guiding light to the future rather than a painful memory of the past.
By connecting viewers with the spirit of Sikh sangarsh (struggle) embodied by the jujharoos (warriors), the film is a soulful exploration of a momentous event in Sikh history. Based on interviews of those present throughout the battle, the film will take a deeper look at what the Battle of Amritsar means for the Sikh panth through the eyes of those who witnessed and participated directly.
Interlaced with powerful archival footage, a traditional Sikh soundscape, and soul-piercing poetry, this film is an artistic tapestry that seeks to capture the soul of Sikh resistance.
Explore the Film Screenings presented in the 2022 - 2023 Season!
Genesis Film Festival 2023
Film Screening- Department of Communication
June 14, 2023
Wednesday, 5:00 p.m.
Music Recital Hall
Genesis Film Festival is an opportunity for film production students in the Communication Department to showcase and celebrate their work created over the 2022 - 2023 academic school year.
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SCU•Presents Performing Arts Center and the Department of Communications
Where the Road Meets the Sun
Film Screening- Department of Communication
April 26, 2023
Wednesday, 7:00 p.m.
Music Recital Hall
Where the Road Meets the Sun is the powerful story of four disparate men whose lives briefly intersect in a rundown Hollywood hotel. After waking from a coma, Takashi, a Japanese hitman, wanders to Los Angeles to escape traumatic memories. He strikes an unusual friendship with Blake, a hotel manager who mourns losing his wife to an affair he regrets. Meanwhile, Julio, an illegal immigrant working at a restaurant to provide for his wife and kid in Mexico, befriends Guy, a young British backpacker living off his estranged father's ATM card. Follow the wild and gut-wrenching adventures of four men trying to survive both emotionally and physically.
Director Mun Chee Yong will attend
Moderated by Professor Guillermo Rodriguez
*21 Days (2020) by Mun Chee Yong will be presented prior to the feature film.
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SCU•Presents Performing Arts Center and the Department of Communications
I Didn’t See You There
Film Screening
February 1, 2023
Wednesday, 7:00 p.m.
Music Recital Hall
Spurred by the spectacle of a circus tent that goes up outside his Oakland Apartment, a disabled filmmaker launches into an unflinching meditation on spectacle, (in)visibility, and the corrosive legacy of the Freak Show. Shot entirely from the filmmaker's literal physical perspective, both from his wheelchair and his two feet, I Didn't See You There is a groundbreaking work of documentary cinema by the first-time feature director Reid Davenport.
A Q&A followed the film screening with Reid Davenport, moderated by Nico Opper (Assistant Professor, Communication)
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"One of the Best Movies of 2022" – Manohla Dargis, New York Times
“'I Didn’t See You There' is first-person poetry in captivating motion, expressed with a singular, assured artistic voice.” – Nick Allen for Roger Ebert
“Davenport has put a stake in the ground for an emboldened cinema of disability.” – Filmmaker Magazine
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SCU•Presents Performing Arts Center, Communication Department, Center for Arts & Humanities, and SCU Disabilities & Chronic Illness Network.
Dawn of the Dead (1979)
Film Screening
October 27, 2022
Thursday, 7:00 p.m.
Music Recital Hall
Warning - Ultra Violent Scenes of Bloody Mayhem! Four survivors of the zombie apocalypse battle hordes of flesh eaters to transform a suburban shopping mall into their fortress-home! This jaw-dropping classic is the follow-up to the immortal Night of the Living Dead, but cranks up the blood, gore, and the savage critique of American consumer society with amazing cinematic brilliance! A rare chance to see this gut-munching masterpiece on the big screen for your Halloween pleasure! Moderated by Mark Larson, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.
Modern Times(1936)
Film Screening
September 29, 2022
Thursday, 7:00 p.m.
Music Recital Hall
Moderated by Mark Larson, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
A smiling man caught in the cogs of a gigantic machine - with this single funny and frightening image, the great filmmaker Charles Chaplin brought his immortal “Little Tramp” character into the Great Depression of 1930’s America. With the effervescent Paulette Goddard as his companion on the road, the Tramp journeys through a city landscape populated with factories and cops, cocaine and communists, and always a dream of a better life. Please join film curator and scholar Mark Larson for a unique presentation of this side-splitting romp into the world as it is today. A spirited group discussion followed the film. 1 hour and 27 minutes
